TOUR REMINDER: Hey, Arizona, John and I will be at the Tempe Changing Hands bookstore tonight at 7pm! Bring a cupcake version of your favorite Wreck for a chance at fabulous prizes, fame, glory, etc. (Be sure to label the plate with your name.)We'll have a fun slide show, free cake, prizes, and lots of laughs - so BE THERE. Wrecky World Domination awaits!

Whenever I see a name in quotes, I see the person using air quotes and rolling their eyes. That makes this one even funnier. If I said to my father, "Okay, Dad," and used air quotes when I said his name, that would be awesome.

Ok, the last two had me howling! "Your the Best Day" Which day is that? Saturday? Sunday? Won't the other days feel slighted? The poor blue thing looked like it belonged to someone with deformed arms...but maybe Dad is like that....Who knows!

On the fishing-themed cake, I did not see the fish until third pass, as I was so mezmorized by that fishing pole. whoa. such meticulous rings to hold the fishing line, now that I see what it is...

and I hope the kiddos do not choke on the plastic hats on the cupcakes. Nothing says Father's Day like a trip to the emergency room. Our son poked a rock in his ear when he was eight years old. His cousins probably dared him to do it, but we remember that trip on Father's Day sixteen years ago...

Stan Fields: Miss Rhode Island, please describe your idea of a perfect date.Cheryl "Rhode Island": That's a tough one. I would have to say April 25th. Because it's not too hot, not too cold, all you need is a light jacket.

The "Great Catch" cake makes sense if the kids are trying to get their single dad out dating again. It reminds me of that hair dye commercial where the guy's kids say he would "...be a great catch for someone." if only he dyed his hair and didn't look so old. I guess they took it a step further and got him a cake. Poor dad.

AUUUGHHHH! I was all ready and raring to go tonight, but I've got something I can't duck out of! Jen and John, know I'm totally there and caking out in spirit! Welcome to Arizona! (Sorry about the heat.)

maybe "your the best day" refers to a custody agreement....and the kid really doesn't like Mom. Or is buttering up Dad for some cash...you know, by saying his day with Dad is the best day of the week...

I didn't see the #1 on the first cake until my second or third look at it-- I thought it said "No Dad." I then tried to come up with a backstory for it. "Hey Joe, sorry about the whole parthenogenesis thing, but here's a special Father's Day cake just for you!" Or it's a follow-up for this cake.

(WV enextork, but I think it's more impressive that I spelled "parthenogenesis" correctly on the first try.)

May I just say that I once wrote a letter to my boyfriend, who was in Japan for 2 years, explaining the difference between your & you're! (Obviously we are not together anymore) I ABSOLUTELY HATE when people cannot get their homonyms straight!! How hard is it to remember you're= YOU ARE? Think people! Think!! PLEASE!!! For the LOVE of the English language! How do you expect foreigners to learn our language when most of you don't even know it?!?!?!?!

I can see why that your a catch cake was only 5.99.. what exactly is dad a catch of? That thing looks like a poo snake.. bleh. Poor dad. I think those wreckerators need to go back to school to learn your and you're again lol.

Arizona? Really??? After that whole Christmastime we-are-the-world let's hold hands and solve humanitarian crises plea? Are you from one of the states whose IDs will be honored by the constabulary? Or just hoping that your wealth and good fortune will be so obvious that you don't have to show papers? Maybe the whole selling your soul for the price of a couple of books thing will be OK if you get some funny greencard cakes, or maybe one with a sheriff incarcerating an 'anchor' baby... Or maybe you can get somebody to write this on a big sheet cake:"The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?" -Pablo Casals, cellist, conductor, and composer (1876-1973)

This is one of the few times on the comment board when I am actually angry. You are a troll in the truest sense of the word.

First of all, if you had bothered to look it up, you would see that Changing Hands is part of the Bycott program for those who don't support the law.

Secondly, regardless of our own politics which we are careful never to mention, we wanted the awesome people of Arizona to be able to go to a fun event, enjoy some cake and laugh a little.

Third, with all the millions and millions of books we sold last night, I might be able to cover the breakfast Jen and I just ate. Maybe you don't realize it but with the San Diego snafu, this little tour of ours is costing us a HUGE amount of money.

And finally, how DARE you belittle the efforts of thousands of people last year to raise money for charity? Cake Wrecks raised over a hundred thousand dollars in 14 days because of the kindness of our readers.

I see one of those little blue birds from the pixar short where they pick on the big gangly blue bird until they pluck his last toe off the telephone wire and they end up featherless. The cute little meanie blue birds. hehe

Nothing says "No #1 Dad" like a CCC that looks like another number. (Tell me those aren't mold spots.)

Dear "Dad"... What guy doesn't want to see 'Dad' in quotes on Father's Day? Gets you right here (points to solar plexus). "A home paternity test kit! Er, is there something I should know?"

So Dad's a great catch. I can't help but hear banjos accompanying that 'compliment'. Part of me wants to know the back story, but the sane part says, 'leave it alone'.

Ditto for the next two. Sometimes the omission of a little word like 'the' can radically alter the meaning of a sentence. "Your['e] the best in *the* US" -- OK, even if it leaves Dad open to competition from other countries. Leave out the second 'the', and it's time to call CPS. Along with having the grammar police pick up the wreckerator.

"Your the best day" sounds like a self-help book written by someone who never mastered that whole 'grammar' thing.

I see 'Happy Father's Dad' as being of a piece with 'Congradulations'. It's a new trend. One that needs to stop. Now. If you have time to pick out a cake, you have time to specify a complete message and make sure same gets onto the cake.

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